As an advocate for personalized learning, my perspective is simple: I’m constantly looking for ways to foster learner agency and put students at the center of the learning. To that end, this is the story of a recent experiment with Read More …
The Day the Students Designed Their Test
Nurturing a “Literacy of Me”
This school year I began to lead a book study on the Quest for Learning: How to Maximize Student Engagement and found myself powerfully reminded that our students need to not only form learning networks in our physical classroom spaces, Read More …
Nurturing the Seeds of Talent and Passion within Learners
When I was twenty years old, I was standing in Benton Hall at Miami University, talking with my education professor after our 7 p.m. night class. While talking with my professor, I remember having a passionate conversation about the importance Read More …
Refocus on Learning, Not Earning
By Jamie Dicks and Julianna Traxler It was two weeks before the school year began, and we were making about 1,248 decisions about how the school year would go and what preparations we would need to make for the upcoming Read More …
How Emergencies Can Recalibrate Our Roles, Priorities, and Perspectives
Emergencies can take your breath away, recalibrating our roles, priorities, and perspectives. I have recently experienced this when an emergency temporarily sidelined my travel and the way in which I meet my obligations to clients. With the onset of my Read More …
Paying Attention to Life Skills as Part of Regular Instructional Practice
Zoe Zmuda — a sophomore in high school — created this YouTube video as a culminating artifact to reflect on how education leaders (from classroom to consultant) pay attention to life skills as part of regular instructional practice. Points discussed Read More …
Honoring “The Why” in Unit Design and Instruction
Over the past few years of teaching English to high school juniors, I have become increasingly aware of the competitive nature of our students’ post-secondary opportunities. With so many students planning to be engineers, architects, accountants and the like, I have Read More …
Small Wins for Every Learner
Let’s be real. One of the hardest things for people to do is build a new habit. It takes commitment, focus, drive, and a constant reminder or way to trigger that action. In the learning environment, deliberately using the Habits Read More …
Responding with Wonderment and Awe: A Lifelong Habit
“The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.” — Albert Einstein Have you ever witnessed a young child react to the to a magician’s sleight of hand, or exclaim in delight over the appearance of Read More …
Newsletter: Back to School
Stay up to date on the news and features regarding personalized learning— sign up to receive newsletters from Learning Personalized, straight to your inbox! It’s official! Everyone is back to school and hard at work developing relationships, testing new routines, Read More …